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Have you recently broken your iPhone screen and wondered if one model screen is the same as another? Have you ever wanted to put a different model screen on your phone because you only have that model available? If the previous question set applies to you, the following article will likely clear up some of your questions.
iPhone 2G (first generation): this model iPhone was one of the best ever designed. That being said, this screen is likely the least user friendly of all to replace. The screen is a one piece unit with the glass /digitizer and LCD that are inseparable. The connection cables are unique to this model.
iPhone 3G: this model iPhone paved the way for a much more user friendly repair. The glass is now removable from the front of the phone separate from the LCD. This allows for a much cheaper and easier glass repair. Once again, like all models of the iPhone, while the screens look similar, they all have different connections.
iPhone 3GS: this model introduces the oleophobic screen. This really does not do that much, simply is "oil fearing" meaning that the screen will not fingerprint as easily. That being said, no you cannot use the 3GS screen on the 3G. The 3GS setup is virtually identical to the 3G, with different connectors of course.
iPhone 4: this screen is novel in the fact that the LCD is much more vibrant than the previous models. Apple also boasts that the screen is made of helicopter glass. That being said, they made the screen with the glass being the primary impact point when it hits the ground. The result is: helicopter glass broken. The screen is also oleophobic. This screen regresses to it's old profile of being one unit with the LCD. This means a much more expensive repair.
This should help when approaching an iPhone screen repair.
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The iPhone X is likely to be a phenomenal success for Apple. But its success will not be driven by anything new that the new phone packs inside. Instead, its success will be based on the phone’s screen size. Essentially, iPhone X provides the same screen real-estate as an iPhone Plus, but with the sleeker form factor of the iPhone 7 or 8.
Apple has done a great job at changing the paradigm of our thinking about the iPhone. If you only care about making phone calls, then an iPhone 4 is good enough. Why pay for more? You probably don’t even need to upgrade your phone for years, as long as the battery keeps holding its charge. However, for most, the actual “phone” function is the least important of the iPhone.
From an earnings perspective, iPhone X will be a tremendous boost. It will increase the average selling price per unit by a few hundred dollars, which should help not just sales, but profit margins as well. This is actually healthy for both Apple and the entire iPhone ecosystem (including DRAM and solid state drive makers — for example, we still have a large position in Micron Technology). People were also postponing buying new iPhones while waiting for the iPhone X; thus, the number of units sold will probably exceed most optimistic expectations.
Then the question becomes, What is next? Higher-priced iPhones will also change the dynamics of the upgrade cycle. Apple is going to have a harder time convincing iFanatics to shell out $1,000-$1,200 every year (or even every two years). The upgrade cycle will likely be elongating to three or four years. Thus, any blow-out success of iPhone X in 2017 and early 2018 will be coming at the expense of future years. Even if you are a loyal Apple shareholder, you have to be prepared for this.
Absent a new category of products, Apple is turning into a fully ripe stock. Yes, it will look statistically cheap based on 2018 earnings, but that will not be the case if you look at 2019 or 2020 earnings. As all the excitement subsides, Apple stock will have to answer an extremely important question: What is next? After all, the value of any business is a lot more than the earnings generated next year, but far beyond that.
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Soon those who can afford to set aside US$999 for a phone will turn into anamoji addicts. Apple’s latest invention enables you to tap into the wonders of the facial coding camera to convert your own facial expressions into a live emoji which can exactly mirror your mood at that moment.
It is a neat and highly trendy feature – which may come across as a simple fad – yet nothing could be further from the truth because it taps into human nature.
As I write in my latest book Small Data, years ago a group of scientists decided to investigate the phenomenon of ‘enclothed cognition’: the idea that when we dress up our personalities change.
The scientists asked a group of volunteers to wear a white lab coat and were given one that had been labeled “doctor”, “dentist”, or nothing. The research measured the respondents' behavior before and after.
To everyone’s surprise, those who wore the white lab coat originally hanging underneath the doctor signage were able to solve questions faster and more accurately after putting on the coat. They even witnessed an increase of self-confidence. Those wearing the dentist’s lab coat saw a slight improvement. Those wearing a lab coat with no signage witnessed no change at all.
Enclothed cognition is everywhere, but it is so subtle that we rarely notice it. Enclothed cognition is present when ladies dress up for the evening, put on high heels and suddenly feel more confident. It is present when businessmen aspire to get and wear a Rolex. It is present in the idea of Harley Davidson – which somehow seems to appeal the most to men hitting the midlife crisis. But it is also in the anamojis the new iPhone X holds.
As with most of the innovations, Apple has produced over the years, you can find traces of the core idea somewhere else, in this case in Sinji-ku, a suburb of Tokyo. Here businessmen can be found dressed in character costumes during their lunch break acting in character with other costumed workers. It is their 60 minutes of escape from reality. Perhaps one could argue this also explains why Halloween masks surged some 17% during the last U.S. election. Never before had so many purchased these masks and many featured Donald Trump.
There’s a German term for this; Masken Freiheit – or directly translated – the freedom behind the mask – the freedom to express whatever you want through a character.
As everything has turned transparent, privacy is in its deepest crises ever. A counterbalance is occurring. It might explain why some of the biggest fairs and exhibitions in the U.S. now are fairs attended by millions of comic fans – dressed up in everything from Star Wars to LEGO men. And it might indeed indicate that those anamojis, which at first seems so innocent, tap into the nerve of something much bigger, perhaps as big, shiny and addictive as the device they’re appearing within; the iPhone. 
Martin Lindstrom, one of the world’s foremost branding experts, is the author of Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends.
His previous books have been translated into 47 languages and have sold well over one million copies. He was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. In 2016, Thinkers50 named him one of the top 20 business thinkers in the world, and he has been ranked the world’s #1 branding expert for three consecutive years. His articles appear in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company. He advises startups and a Who’s Who of Fortune 100 companies on branding, communication, consumer psychology, retail, innovation, and transformation.
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Some of Apple's recent announcements are quite exciting. Apple AR and VR is certainly a nice move in the right direction -- a platform vision that allows for future growth. In fact, IOS 11 in general is a nice lift for iPad, and albeit nominal shift for iPhone.

What concerns me is the ego-driven product release cycle. Skip iPhone 7s, release iPhone 8 instead, and oh, wait, also skip 9 and release iPhone X. This feels 10x more like a publicity stunt than it does good consumer engagement. IPhone 7 was an acceptable evolutionary change from iPhone 6s, maybe most importantly because of adding waterproof design (even though I still dislike the lack of a headphone jack). The more people I talk to, I think the consumers really were happy with iPhone 6s, and would have been happy with the SAME phone with added waterproof design. I suggest this in reaction to the strong response to iPhone SE -- a classic form factor with updated internals, and people loved it, even more than Apple would like to admit.

I am all for innovation, but when ego and marketing drive delivery instead of maturing the tech, you end up with some of the same issues we are seeing: supply and manufacturing issues with iPhone X. A half-baked aesthetic of iPhone X (really? you LIKE that little cut-out for camera stuff on that screen?). Or even worse, a new generation of iPhone 8 and 8 plus that is selling terribly because people don't see any value over the previous model, or a big difference in perceived value with the "also" coming iPhone X.

This technogeek's opinion is that iPhone 8 was a complete waste of time. Better to have put the extra resources into making iPhone X something even more crisp. Don't skimp on the wireless charging tech. Make the screen perfect and beautiful without open doors for criticism, make sure all of the tech works perfectly and scales before announcing dates for preorder, make sure all suppliers are ready to meet demand. This is 101 stuff here, no company should jump that deep without planning better, least of all with ALSO trying to release a lackluster evolutionary design *JUST* because "we always do that."

What is your thought? Is the same thing happening with Apple Watch? or iPad ? Are other device manufacturers doing better? or worse? I'm scrappy, start a argument with me here, or on twitter @aschwabe

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Take a look at the back of the box from which you unpacked your iPhone and you’ll see this: “Designed by Apple in California Assembled in China.”
Reading this tagline might trigger a vision in your mind of Jonathan Ive, Apple’s legendary Chief Design Officer, dropping the drawings and technical specs for the next generation iPhone into a (highly secure) shared folder that its low-cost suppliers in China can access as they manufacture and assemble the product by the millions.
But as Apple CEO Tim Cook recently pointed out, this picture wouldn’t tell the entire story of how an iPhone actually gets made today, nor why Apple prefers to make them in China. At the Fortune Global Forum in Guangzhou in early December, I listened to Cook as he explained why Apple continues to favor China as it central base for manufacturing iPhones:
“The number one reason why we like to be in China is the people. China has extraordinary skills. And the part that’s the most unknown is there’s almost 2 million application developers in China that write apps for the iOS App Store. These are some of the most innovative mobile apps in the world, and the entrepreneurs that run them are some of the most inspiring and entrepreneurial in the world. Those are sold not only here but exported around the world.”
Highly skilled software developers developing apps for the App Store are one reason Apple likes to be in China. But the depth of highly skilled labor in the manufacturing space is why Apple makes its iPhones there:
“China has moved into very advanced manufacturing, so you find in China the intersection of craftsman kind of skill, and sophisticated robotics and the computer science world. That intersection, which is very rare to find anywhere, that kind of skill, is very important to our business because of the precision and quality level that we like. The thing that most people focus on if they’re a foreigner coming to China is the size of the market, and obviously it’s the biggest market in the world in so many areas. But for us, the number one attraction is the quality of the people."
Citing an example of the type of a highly-skilled supplier Apple works closely with, Cook talked at length about recently visiting one company that it has collaborated with for several years:
“I visited ICT—they manufacture, among other things, the AirPods for us. When you think about AirPods as a user, you might think it couldn’t be that hard because it’s really small. The AirPods have several hundred components in them, and the level of precision embedded into the audio quality—without getting into really nerdy engineering—it’s really hard. And it requires a level of skill that’s extremely high.”
And the idea that Apple simply hands over the design to a company like ICT, which just manufacturers according to spec, is simply untrue, says Cook:
“It’s not designed and sent over, that sounds like there’s no interaction. The truth is, the process engineering and process development associated with our products require innovation in and of itself. Not only the product but the way that it’s made, because we want to make things in the scale of hundreds of millions, and we want the quality level of zero defects. That’s always what we strive for, and the way that you get there, particularly when you’re pushing the envelope in the type of materials that you have, and the precision that your specifications are forcing, requires a kind of hand in glove partnership. You don’t do it by throwing it over the chasm. It would never work. I can’t imagine how that would be.”
Addressing the designed-in-California, made-in-low-cost-China impression that many people have—an impression reinforced by the tagline that is printed on every box containing a new iPhone—Cook had this to say:
“There’s a confusion about China. The popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labor cost. I’m not sure what part of China they go to but the truth is China stopped being the low labor cost country many years ago. And that is not the reason to come to China from a supply point of view. The reason is because of the skill, and the quantity of skill in one location and the type of skill it is.”
And China has an abundance of skilled labor unseen elsewhere, says Cook:
“The products we do require really advanced tooling, and the precision that you have to have, the tooling and working with the materials that we do are state of the art. And the tooling skill is very deep here. In the US you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I’m not sure we could fill the room. In China you could fill multiple football fields.”
Cook credits China’s vast supply of highly skilled vocational talent:
“The vocational expertise is very very deep here, and I give the education system a lot of credit for continuing to push on that even when others were de-emphasizing vocational. Now I think many countries in the world have woke up and said this is a key thing and we’ve got to correct that. China called that right from the beginning.”
Watch the entire interview with Tim Cook at the Fortune Global Forum:
In the past, low-cost labor from China posed a threat to the manufacturing base of the US and other major manufacturing nations. Today, do you see a similar threat to jobs in other economies as a result of China's move into technologically advanced, skills-intensive manufacturing? Let me know what you think in the comments.
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Advertising of Galaxy, iPhones, and Pixels

Upon the release of apple's modern-day product, the iphone x, samsung has launched a spot that follows an apple consumer during the ultimate ten years. In its industrial, samsung suggests us the difference of residing an android and ios lifestyles.
Samsung Galaxy: Growing Up
Within the one minute spot, samsung takes us down reminiscence lane lower back to 2007. Here, apple person erik walks down by means of an apple store where people are already looking ahead to the primary iphone. He opts into the ios way of life, and fast starts offevolved noticing matters:


As 3 years pass, erik takes a picture of his vehicle, most effective to be stopped via a "storage is complete" message on his digital camera app. After every other 3 years, he meets lauren, who is a galaxy consumer. Erik is quick to note that the galaxy is a much larger phone than his iphone. In 2015, he's caught again waiting in line for the iphone 6s. In 2016, erik and lauren both fall right into a lake, with lauren's samsung being okay when you consider that it is water resistant, at the same time as erik's iphone is turned off. The iphone gets thrown right into a bowl of rice. The ad continues to note many other functions: digital camera pleasant, headphone jacks (which means no dongles needed), and wi-fi charging.
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This, but, is truely no longer the primary time samsung has taken a jab at its competitor.
The Next Big Thing is Already Here
Samsung's maximum notorious campaigns are "the next big issue is already here." the series of ads that run under this campaign intention to at once highlight the differences among samsung and apple merchandise.


In an Adweek article, Samsung noted that what makes them unique is the technology innovation they make available through their products:
“At a time when tens of million Americans are ready to upgrade their smartphones, the two biggest brands have introduced flagship devices—at the same time. This new ad speaks directly [to] them, underscoring why so many are choosing Galaxy S8, S8+ and Note 8 as their next smartphone. Instead of being on autopilot, they are finally excited about technology again.
The ad, of course, was also seen by Apple users, who were quick to note that the commercial lacked the part where their Galaxy Note 7s kept exploding.

Apple: iPhones are connecting people

While apple first delivered their iphone lower back in 2007, they did it with a compilation of film characters answering phones with a "good day?" whilst maximum of the scenes blanketed humans answering thru a landline corded telephone, we see huge boxy mobile phones toward the give up of the video.


Apple's classified ads get the most reward. This involves no marvel considering ridley scott's "1984" apple industrial is frequently considered as one of the quality commercials in records. But other than their suppose different campaigns, apple has pushed for some side campaigns that connect customers with their product.
In 2013, apple released an ad that shows how iphones are in fact connecting households, in place of disconnecting them. The economic below capabilities a circle of relatives christmas reunion in which the teenage grandson isn't participating that much in family activities. You may see the advert beneath.


Turns out, the grandson became in fact creating a video in their holiday from numerous tidbits he filmed on his iphone, and as a result changed into capable of broadcast it to the television through airplay.
Apple's cutting-edge commercial "meet iphone x" is a gap which you have come to assume from apple: the smartphone floats in white area, displaying off a characteristic at a time, with hip heritage song.


Actually two things are the pinnacle dealers for the iphone x: the animoji feature, which lets customers use their face to create 3-d lively emojis, and the augmented reality. People are already getting creative with animojis, making animoji karaoke pretty a laugh to proportion. Augmented reality is honestly still within the works, however given apple's release of the arkit ("a new framework that allows you to without difficulty create exceptional augmented reality stories"), we can count on many greater reviews to be coming quickly.

Pixel, made by Google, is a fierce contender

Last but not least is google's present day piece of hardware: the pixel 2. Unlike samsung and apple, google boasts excessive electricity in the cloud (they're a software program agency after all). Thus, their advertising and strategy for the pixel is predicated heavily on its use of its specific software merchandise. To reveal this, google launched a niche telling clients to demand greater from their phones. Inside two mins, google assistant answers any questions you may have.


Even as still in their early variations of hardware, google is technically nevertheless new to the mobile hardware sport. But the issue of being new was its primary selling point while it launched the pixel a yr in the past.


With an apparent jab at apple, the google pixel got here in three "new" hues: pretty black, very silver, and truely blue, given apple's titles for the colors they launch their iphones in (i.E. Rose gold). Different jabs include the headphone jack, no camera bump, and plenty greater in a text flashed quick close to the cease of the industrial.

What phone will you choose?

It's interesting to see the advertising from the companies which might be quickly attempting to find your area for your pocket. Will you pick the modern galaxy? Will you choose the aesthetically-pleasing iphone? Or will you provide the pixel a danger, bundled with all google products?

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Julian Gamboa is a senior at UC Berkeley with a focus on marketing. Julian is currently a LinkedIn Campus Editor for UC Berkeley and a Course Instructor of the marketing and digital publishing course Digital Marketing Today at the Haas School of Business and founder of Digiviewpoint, a millennial publishing account.
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